---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 46"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "46"
heading: "Repealed. July 28, 1956, ch. 772, title III, § 301(a)(2), 70 Stat. 712"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/46"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Alaska"
---

# [§46. Repealed. July 28, 1956, ch. 772, title III, § 301(a)(2), 70 Stat. 712 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts Feb. 6, 1909, ch. 80, § 7, 35 Stat. 601; Oct. 14, 1942, ch. 601, § 2, 56 Stat. 782; July 28, 1956, ch. 722, title III, § 301(b)(1), 70 Stat. 712, authorized Governor of Alaska or his designee to contract for care and custody of insane persons.